1351479 - Selection for Trash folder on server not saved

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[dano-github]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Build ID: 20170317213149

Steps to reproduce:

Go to "Accounts" -> "View settings for account". Click on "Server Settings". Select "Move it to this folder:" radio button under "Server settings", "When I delete a message:" heading. Select "Inbox" -> "Trash". Click OK button.

Stop Thunderbird
Start Thunderbird




Actual results:

Next to "Move it to this folder:" the selection is now "Choose folder". 


Expected results:

The previously selected trash folder should be shown.

Comment 1

[dano-github]

This is consistent across different machines using version 45.8.0. The account is an IMAP account.

Comment 2

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Yes, I've noticed on occasions that the selector doesn't show the previous selection. Maybe time to fix this.

Comment 3

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Apparently the root cause was reported in bug 836631. Time to fix it, no?

Comment 4

[:aceman]

Jorg do you have a reproducible test setup where you would try out the patches?

Comment 5

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Attachment: Screenshot showing the problem

(In reply to :aceman from comment #4)
> Jorg do you have a reproducible test setup where you would try out the
> patches?
Open the Server Settings of any IMAP account and see that it doesn't show what the Trash folder is.

Comment 6

[:aceman]

It's not that easy. On my single IMAP server it shows the Trash folder correctly in the UI.

I think it needs a server where the trash folder isn't called Trash. OR a localized nightly of TB where special trash folder is displayed in the UI with a different name than Trash.

Comment 9

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

(In reply to :aceman from comment #6)
> It's not that easy. On my single IMAP server it shows the Trash folder
> correctly in the UI.
Yes, for a while until restart. But at no time does a deleted message go to the selected folder, at least not for me.

Comment 10

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Reporter, are you saying that the setting gets forgotten or also that it's never obeyed, neither before nor after forgetting it?

Comment 11

[dano-github]

It is obeyed once it is set until the application is shut down. When I start it again, the setting has been forgotten. The field is set to "Choose Folder".

Comment 12

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

This should be fixed by the improvements we made in bug 1335982, bug 1428666 and bug 1427507. Try it on a Daily version after today.

Comment 13

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Oh, I forgot to mention: This will only work for non-localised versions of TB. For localised versions and trash folders with non-ASCII characters, see bug 1427940 which will be the last issue to solve here.